Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
22758
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/12/1999
Date of Amendment
28/10/2004
Name of Property
Bethel Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Mynachlog-Ddu
Town
Clynderwen
Locality
Mynachlog Ddu
Easting
214530
Northing
230374
Street Side
Location
Situated on the E side of a minor road to Glandy Cross some 250m S of the road junction at Mynachlog Ddu.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Baptist chapel of 1875-7 built to replace a chapel of 1821 which survives as the schoolroom adjoining, this in turn replaced one of 1794. The chapel has close similarities with a group of chapels in N Pembrokeshire, including Bethabara at Pontyglasier, Crymych community, of 1873, and Glanrhyd in Nevern community.
Exterior
Chapel, squared Preseli stone with roughcast side and rear walls. Slate roof overhanging at eaves with plain bargeboards to front gable and paired brackets to side and short return under bargeboards. Gable front with arched openings, grey Cilgerran or Rosebush stone voussoirs and outer arch rings. Roundel in gable with pierced slate ventilator, rectangular plaque beneath, two long side windows and pair of small centre windows over broad door. Slate sills. Timber window glazing bars replaced c1940, also probably door and fanlight. Slate chamfered cap to low plinth. Two-window sides and 2-window end gable with similar long windows.
Interior
Galleried interior with plastered walls and boarded ceiling. Three-sided gallery on fluted columns made by T Thomas of Cardigan. Panelled gallery front in long panels divided by squares, curved square panels in the 2 angles. Clock by T Thomas, cardigan. Pews in 3 blocks, with shaped ends and panelled backs, some inward-facing pews flanking pulpit. Set fawr with turned newels and finials, echoed on newels of platform stairs. Break-front platform with Jacobean-style pierced panels with low open rail above with turned finials. Similar Jacobean-style panels to platform sides. Behind pulpit is plaster arch with panelled pilasters, big decorative consoles and ornate arch mouldings. Ceiling has narrow coved cornice and small plastered border but is mostly boarded in 4 divided by diagonal timber centre ring around a very ornate plaster rose with 6-petal flower at centre and ring of 6 large acanthus leaves, all surrounded by an ornate ring. Lobby has one square window with coloured glass in margins, 2 doors into chapel, 2 sets of stairs to gallery.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as a good example of a chapel of the 1870s with elaborate plasterwork to the ceiling rose and well detailed woodwork. Of interest also for the grouping with the earlier chapel of 1821, illustrating the continuity of worship and the growth of the cause, typical of the later C19.
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